{"id":1748,"date":"2009-02-23T15:18:19","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T20:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=1748"},"modified":"2009-02-23T15:18:20","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T20:18:20","slug":"ah-well-thanks-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2009\/02\/23\/ah-well-thanks-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"Ah well, thanks anyway&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Katrina of <a href=\"http:\/\/ficklefeline.blogspot.com\/\">Fickle Feline<\/a>, winner of Mabel&#8217;s Labels &#8220;send a blogger to BlogHer&#8221; contest!  Her <a href=\"http:\/\/ficklefeline.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/rewards-benefits-of-blogging.html\">award-winning entry <\/a>is terrific, she seems like a lovely person, and I&#8217;m genuinely thrilled that she won.<\/p>\n<p>Although I no doubt made a pest of myself with my multi-media campaign to garner your votes, I have to admit that I&#8217;m both disappointed and a little bit relieved to not be the big winner.  The idea of heading off all by my lonesome to a girlie-fest of famous bloggers frankly scared the socially-awkward pants off of me, much as I really wanted to go.  And I&#8217;d&#8217;ve fretted the whole time about leaving Beloved and the boys behind, sad though that may sound.<\/p>\n<p>I owe every single one of you that voted for me a heart-felt thank you, though, and sloppy wet smooches to those of you who really stepped up by tweeting or even blogging to scam a few more votes for me.  And I&#8217;ll gleefully thumb my nose at those of you who simply rolled your eyes and hoped I&#8217;d stop with all the embarrassing grovelling already.  I had fun campaigning for your votes, and I hope you did, too.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Katrina, and thanks again to the folks at Mabel&#8217;s Labels!  You should <a href=\"http:\/\/mlw.mabel.ca\/\" alt=\"If you're going to buy, do it through Lee!\">buy their stuff <\/a>&#8211; I do!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Katrina of Fickle Feline, winner of Mabel&#8217;s Labels &#8220;send a blogger to BlogHer&#8221; contest! Her award-winning entry is terrific, she seems like a lovely person, and I&#8217;m genuinely thrilled that she won. Although I no doubt made a pest of myself with my multi-media campaign to garner your votes, I have to admit &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2009\/02\/23\/ah-well-thanks-anyway\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ah well, thanks anyway&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-i-love-the-interwebs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1749,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748\/revisions\/1749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}